E) Electoral system (Law of August 6, '05 / specially drawn up for the landlords and bourgeoisie.
Exclusion of urban workers.
Indirect elections for peasants. Estate-based system etc.
Zh) Durnovo: prohibition of zemstvo congress. "Enough chatter"³) and Sharapov in the *Russian Cause*⁶).
Arrests of liberals on August 20 (7), '05⁷).

2.
1.⁸) State Duma and war. Tactic of the tsar.
Advisory [character].
Indirect [elections].
Non-universal [suffrage].
A mockery.

3. Durnovo arrests — (+Sharapov. A mockery.

4. Three theories.

5. Tactics of the liberals
and tactics of the revolutionary
proletariat.
(1847 or 1863)

1. Bulygin Duma and the question of war (B).
2. The essence of the Bulygin Duma (E and V).
3. Forces of reaction (Zh).
4. Three theories (sehr kurz)⁹)
5. Our tactics: active boycott and uprising.
(D + G + A).

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6.
DRAFT OF A LEAFLET

α — Consultation of the tsar with the people,
β — agreement of the tsar with the people
γ — or autocracy of the people?

α — State Duma.
β — Osvobozhdensky project.
γ — Programme of social democracy.

α — the people [have] nihil.
β — the tsar has power,
    the Constituent
    Assembly
    — [has] opinion.
γ — the people have power.

DRAFT OF A LEAFLET

α — the tsar convenes as the tsar wishes,
β — the tsar convenes as the people wish.
γ — the people convene as the people wish.

α — preservation of autocracy in full.
β — limitation of tsarist power by constitution.
γ — democratic republic.

α — autocracy = full power,
β — the tsar divides power.
γ — revolutionary government, popular uprising.

*) Article "On a New Path" in the newspaper *Rus'* No. 181, of August 20(7), 1905.
²) "Our Position on the Question of Armed Uprising" (signed "Osvobozhdenets"). *Osvobozhdeniye* No. 74, of July 26 (13), 1905.
³) Hic Rhodus, hic salta — "Here is Rhodes, here leap." Meaning: here is the threshold, decide.
⁴) See Works, vol. VIII, p. 156.
⁵) On Trepov's report concerning the forthcoming congress of zemstvo and municipal figures to be held on June 7 (May 25), 1905 in Moscow, a "supreme" resolution was inscribed: "I hope the congress will not take place; enough chatter." (*Osvobozhdeniye* No. 73, of July 19 (6), 1905, p. 391.)
⁶) "Sharapov in the *Russian Cause* advises stocking that palace where the Duma will be seated with Cossacks... in case of 'unseemly' outbursts from this Duma." (Works, vol. VIII, p. 154.)
⁷) On August 20 (7), 1905, the following were arrested: P. N. Milyukov, Professor A. Y. Brandt, and others on the charge of participating in the Union of Unions.
⁸) Points 1–5 represent the final formulation of the plan of the article in which all the points outlined here are developed.
⁹) Sehr kurz — very briefly.